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An unpleasant incident

The Kremlin downplays Ukraine’s devastating attack on Russian military airfields, looking for distractions and feebly recycling old lies...

Jun 9

Georgia’s Foreign Agents law: protecting sovereignty or attacking civil society?

Georgia’s authorities have started a disinformation campaign ahead of the application of a new Foreign Agents law. A new law is...

Jun 4

History Wars: Lithuania’s Next

Smears, nit-picking, and conspiracy theories are ammunition for the Kremlin. By Edward Lucas History, in the hands of Kremlin...

Jun 3

From Screen to Battlefield: Constructing the Image of the Enemy on Russian Television

As recently as early 2014, 66% of Russians had a positive attitude toward Ukraine and Ukrainians, but within a year, Kremlin propaganda...

May 30

Exposing and analysing Russia’s FIMI operations

On March 19, the EU HRVP Kaja Kallas presented the 3rd EEAS Report(opens in a new tab) on Foreign Information Manipulation and...

May 21

A glossary: who is who in the FIMI zoo?

The 3rd EEAS Report on Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) Threats offers a wealth of insights into information...

May 15

Bosnia: Moscow’s Second Front in Europe

The Kremlin is playing games behind the scenes in the Balkans, presenting the West with a challenge and an opportunity. Source:...

May 13

Rewriting history: the myth of Russia’s invincibility

As the world commemorates 80 years since the end of World War II, the most devastating global conflict the world had ever seen, the...

May 12

The myth that won’t die: blaming NATO for Russia’s war

In the murky landscape of disinformation, few narratives have proven as stubbornly persistent as the claim that NATO expansion provoked...

May 7

In Russia’s FIMI laboratory: test case, Moldova

Last year’s combination of a presidential election and an EU referendum offered Russia an opportunity it could not afford to ignore, as...

Apr 28

Enter the galaxy: a network analysis of influence operations

Foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are a complex and multi-faceted challenge which, as evidenced by...

Apr 16

Russian spies as disinformation actors

For years, one of the biggest obsessions of pro-Kremlin disinformation peddlers has been convincing their audiences that any and all...

Apr 4

Behind the curtain: a novel analytical approach to FIMI exposure

The European External Action Service (EEAS) has released its third report on foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI)...

Mar 28

Why Russia has been trying to take Crimea for centuries: myths and true facts about the peninsula

The information component has long been an integral part of modern conflicts. Ukraine has always been the target of Russia’s massive...

Mar 20

What we have learnt about FIMI after three years of full-scale war in Ukraine

By Mykola Balaban and Serhii Zhukov The modern level of economic, political, and informational globalisation offers vast opportunities...

Mar 19

Schadenfreude over the abyss

Pro-Kremlin disinformation operators have tried to smear, delegitimise and humiliate Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy since his...

Mar 12

The end of transit: Russian propaganda in search of new ways for Russian gas

The Ukrainian-Russian agreement on the transit of Russian gas to European countries expired on January 1, 2025. This step severed the...

Mar 5

North Korea Fighting Against Ukraine: How and Why Russian Propaganda Denies It

Since the full-scale invasion, discussions have occasionally arisen about the so-called “Korean scenario” for Ukraine. In 2022, “...

Mar 4

Why is the Kremlin so hung up on smearing Zelenskyy?

According to the Kremlin: A drug addict, a dictator and a puppet, oligarch, collector of Nazi memorabilia and a Nazi himself, an agent...

Feb 27

Paper bear: the myth of Russian invincibility is blackmail for negotiations

The Kremlin’s flirtation with the idea of Russia’s invincibility started way before the recent heated Munich Security Conference . In...

Feb 24